I had planned to get on the bike today with ambitions of cycling all the way to Southend On Sea. After a little time spent investigating routes etc I realised I’d have to commit all this to memory and lets face it, there was no chance that was ever going to happen. So I decided instead to don the ‘sneakers’ and go for my first run in quite a few months. I set off not really knowing where I was going, but with a rough direction in mind (away from London). I ended up finding the Lee Valley Nature reserve. And whilst it’s not necessarily a southern’ers idyll it was pleasant and worthy of another visit. Just to find green space inside the M25 I suppose should be grateful. Anyway my running / occasional walking took me some six miles which I was reasonably proud of. If I was to compute cycling distance from effort exerted whilst running some calculations would put it at around 30 miles though I’m not quite sure how true that is. Anyway time to relax and enjoy the sun, todays twenty two degrees is expected to fall to 17 and rainy so best enjoy it while it lasts.